The Kingdom

Me and a mate:

flood:

overcast:

plugs and crabs:

8 bass to 12lbs (and 2 flounder):




Decided to ditch work today and go fishing. There wasnt a puff of wind and there was plenty of cloud cover so i decided to go plugging for bass at a local mark. Third cast and i was into the big one. He tore line off the reel at a ferocious pace. He put up a fine struggle but after ten mins i had him ashore and after a few pics and a measurement (78cm) he was returned safe to fight another day. After that the next half hour there was non stop action. There was obviously lots of sandeel being scattered all over the place we could see the gulls diving for them aswell. My mate followed up with a fine bass of 60cm on a plug then i had 2 at 58 and 52. The tide was coming in fast so we packed the plugging rods away and went bait fishing. After the second cast my mate had another 60cm bass on a crab bait. Then i had 2 flounder. We left soon after because of the weed. We found another part not so weedy and cast a few more crab baits out. We stayed here for an hour or so, my mate caught 2 schoolies and we decided to pack it up and head for the car. My mate suggested a few more casts with the plugging rods and i was only itching to have another go at them. So off we went again. As we were walking to the mark out of the cornrer of my eye i could see a bass in only 50mm of water speeding off to sea. He was obviously foraging without a care in the world in only 50mm of wateruntill we startled him, I never seen a bass come so close before. We stayed for another hour and despite seeing lots and lots of activity in the water I only managed one more bass of 52. A very enjoyable day! Beats working thats for sure :

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Cracking fishing,that's wot it's all about,well done

i think tex has just about said it all.. great stuff lads

Thats some fishing lads well done

Beautiful fish Mus ,
Hope they come out to play tommorow

thats brilint sesion lads,well done!

what a fish mighty well done!a fine specimen!take a few more days off work lol
tightlines fergal

brilliant fish there man, well done!!!

thats a nice bass well done

Love it, fair play for returning it too. Nice work.

Do you mind me asking what plug it took at what time of the day..?

(I keep a data on times of day, plug colour etc.)

Cracking bass, well done.

Thanks for all the replies lads. Eoghan it was a feedshallow pearl rainbow my fav color! caught around 1 pm. Have you noticed any trends with colour and time?

outstanding result man some cracking fish there.

great fishing lads ,it dont get any better than that

oh yes it do mitch ,he could have won the euromillions aswell
fine fish for the lure unhindered fight

Well apart from the obvious ones, darker it is the darker the lure etc. moving to a white/ see-through lure in real bright conditions. Its funny, I use the exact same lure from about sunrise up.

well done on the big un & especily well done on returning such a fine fish...

Was out there again today the wind changed and picked up. Had 4 nice sized bass between 2 of us biggest was about 8 maybe 9 lbs landed by my mate. The other 3 were all about 3 or 4 lbs. All fish caught on the feedshallows. 2 on the konoshiro number 11 and 2 on the pearl rainbow. Will post photos later

nice bass well done lads

Absolutely brilliant fish Mus, congratulations and fair play on returning the fish. The fish looks to be in beautiful condition from the photo. Well done again!